netdev - Re: linux-next: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in __sk_mem_raise

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Date:   Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:26:50 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
 dereference in __sk_mem_raise_allocated()

Hi,

On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 15:24 -0800, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> Our test system detected a kernel oops. Looks like a problem in the
> "udp: refactor memory accounting" series.

My fault: I missed udplite in my tests.

Thank you for reporting.

I'm fine with Eric's patch, setting both .memory_allocated
and .sysctl_mem.
We could also remove .backlog_rcv, but it's not strictly needed.

Paolo